COLOMBIES, SHOAL BERTRAND ROCKS. 173 



Colombier shoal, with 12 feet of water over it, bears -to", dis- 

 tant 650 yards from Little Colombier. 



Clearing" mark. — Galantry lighthouse, open eastward of cape 

 Aigle, bearing 185°, leads eastward of this shoal. 



Cape Blanc, a white cliff, is southeastward TOO yards from Henry 

 point, and southward ^ mile farther is cape Rouge, a high red cliff; 

 the coast is bold-to from cape Blanc to cape Rouge. 



Cape Rouge shoals are three patches off' cape Rouge; from the 

 eastern of the shoals, on which the depth is 12 feet, cape Rouge bears 

 293°, distant 400 yards. 



Cape Aig-le is southward nearly 800 yards from cape Rouge, and 

 the coast between is foul. 



liittle St. Pierre, a small islet, steep-to on its eastern side, lies 

 I mile east-northeastward of cape Aigle, and is 17 feet high; there 

 is no passage for ships between this islet and the main. 



Beacon. — A stone beacon, 16 feet high, with its upper part 

 painted black and its lower part white, stands on this islet. 



St. Pierre harbor. — Zoe bank, on which there is about 1 foot 

 water, extends about 600 yards from the shore northward of Canon 

 point. 



Buoy. — The eastern edge of Zoe bank is marked by a buoy painted 

 black and white in horizontal stripes. 



Canon point, a reef of rocks, extending eastward from the town 

 of St. Pierre, covers at high water. 



Lig"hts. — A square white tower, 33 feet high, on the eastern part 

 of Canon point, exhibits, at 36 feet above high water, a fixed light, 

 showing green over an arc of 74° between the bearings of 216° and 

 290°, and white in other directions when not obscured by the land; 

 it should be seen from a distance of 6 miles in clear weather. 



A lighthouse, 36 feet high, painted white with its southwestern 

 and southeastern sides red, on the plain at the north of the town of 

 St. Pierre and 800 yards northwestward of Canon point lighthouse, 

 exhibits, at 64 feet above high water, a fixed red light, which should 

 be seen from a distance of 3 miles in clear weather. 



These lights in line, bearing 285°, lead in mid-channel through 

 South channel ; they were very indistinct in 1902. 



La Vache rock is situated 200 yards southward of the light- 

 house on Canon point. 



Beacon. — A beacon, 8 feet high, stands on la Vache rock. 



Bertrand rocks, situated ^ mile southeastward of Canon point, 

 are low and extend 350 yards from the shore. The inner harbor of 

 St. Pierre runs in southwestward 1,200 yards from between Canon 

 point and Bertrand rocks ; it is shoal and contracted by Moules island 

 at about 300 yards southward from Canon point. (See also p. 177.) 



